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Photographs

Collection

The Photographic Collection of the Archivio Storico Ricordi originated during the second half of the 1800s and covers the whole of the 1900s, counting thousands of items thanks mainly to the interest shown by Giulio Ricordi for this new artform. Photography had become an increasingly indispensable medium within an editor’s production system, as evidenced by Casa Ricordi’s early periodicals such as Musica e Musicisti and Ars et Labor. This section includes a list of the nearly 900 photographic studios that collaborated with Ricordi, including many of the national and international big names in photography.

The luthier Luigi Paganini with M°Archimede Montanelli and the little Balilla, photograph by Battista Canè, Forlì, early 1900s

On focus

Giuseppe Verdi davanti alla casa di Giulio Ricordi

Achille Ferrario

Giacomo Puccini

Attilio Badodi

Sarah Bernhardt nel ruolo di Tosca

Félix Nadar

Ottorino Respighi

Ghitta Carell

Ella Fitzgerald

Ugo Mulas

Daria Farini

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company Ltd.

Description	Author	ID	Date
Bice Corsini in the role of Maria	Romeo, G. & V.	FOTO01972	1905
Carlo Albani in the role of Giovanni and ? in the role of Maria in Giovanni Gallurese, Brescia, 1905	Rinaldi F.lli	FOTO02197	1905
Alice Nielsen with kimono	Schloss	FOTO03106	1905
Clara Berger in stage costume	Liesendahl, Atelier	FOTO02502	1906
Salomea Krusceniski in stage costume	Magrini, Giuseppe	FOTO00651	1907
Serena Ronconi in the role of Candia della Leonessa	Garatti, Fratelli	FOTO00958	1907
Edith De Lys in stage costume	Rude & Hilfling	FOTO03089	1908
Marcelle Reville in the role of Tosca, Act 1, Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 1908	Reutlinger, Charles	FOTO00954	1908
Ludwik Solski in the role of Kosciuszko, polish hero	Mien, Jules	FOTO00004	1908
Edith De Lys in the role of Tosca, Act 1	Dover Street Studios, The	FOTO00372	1909